A Christmas in PBS Town

chapter 1

Our story begins in Cartoon Network City at the old Cartoon Cartoon Fridays studio which was made as like a local hang-out these days since CCF was long over these days. Today, there was a Christmas party going on before the actual holiday and there were many guests there, especially the old Cartoon Cartoon veterans and the classic Hanna-Barbera stars from before CCF was a thing. Right now, Henry Chan and Mike Mazinsky were talking with each other by the snack table.

"So... Let me get this straight..." Mike said. "You're gonna spend Christmas away from home?"

"Uh... Yeah?" Henry replied like it was obvious. "Is that a problem?"

"I just wanna make sure I have this story straight," Mike said. "Though, then again, I guess I shouldn't talk since I spent Christmas in Nicktropolis one year to be with Lil."

"So, why is it weird?" Henry asked.

"Just asking," Mike shrugged. "I'm gonna need some luck myself though for what I plan to do with Lil this year."

"Uh... You're not gonna ask her to marry you, are you?" Henry asked the tomboy. "I mean, aren't you like 11 or something?"

"I'm 13, and that's not what I meant," Mike replied. "I'm gonna visit the orphanage I used to live in with Lil, Jamie, Darcy, Jen, and Brick. I thought it'd be nice because they usually did great stuff for Christmas for the kids like a special show for us to be apart of if we wanted to."

"Well, that sounds pretty cool," Henry said. "I can't believe you left that place when you were young. You could've gotten killed or something."

"Yeah, but you have to remember that I'm not a normal kid," Mike told him. "None of us are really normal."

"Let it go... Let it go... Can't hold it in anymore~..." Dee Dee sang to herself as she danced in the background, dressed as Queen Elsa, as she used her ice powers along the way which made the floor into ice which made everybody else slip and fall from that.

"Ugh... See what I mean?" Mike groaned.

"Yeah, yeah, I've heard," Henry said to Mike. "I know it'll be my first Christmas away from home, I just thought it would be fun. I won't be alone though, Alexandra will be there of course, along with Josie, Valerie, Melody, Kasey, and Alexandra's friends from New York City."

"That kid sure looks adorable," Mike smiled as she took a look at Jenny who walked around as Oliver followed her from the table next to her. "How old is she again?"

"She's 8 now," Henry replied. "She's very sweet for a rich girl."

"Remember, Oliver, these presents aren't yours." James told his sister's kitten.

Oliver let out a small mew in response.

"I was never really a cat person, but that kitten sure seems cool too," Mike remarked. "Well, I hope you have fun with... Uh... Where were you going again?"

"PBS Town," Henry replied. "It's mostly peaceful, probably aside from Hacker, Landon, and that case with Alison Kunz."

"Yeah, I have to agree," Mike nodded from that. "You really liked hanging out with the Read family, huh?"

"Yeah, I don't know why Duncan makes fun of babysitting, I think it's actually kinda fun," Henry said. "Seriously, what was that all about?"

"I dunno," Mike shrugged. "Duncan just thinks he's funny when he very painfully isn't."

"That's for sure." Henry said as he decided to get some Christmas punch.

Mike then walked off to see June, Dee Dee, and Lu while the Eds hung out with Og.

"Thanks for letting us come to PBS Town with you, Alexandra," Josie said to the former mean girl. "I just hope you don't have any reason to 'Hulk Out' down there."

"It's Christmas," Alexandra shrugged. "I don't think I'll have to unless maybe that Hacker guy tries to take Kasey away or Alison Kunz comes back to avenge the P-Pals again."

"But Alexandra, didn't you tell us that she got crushed to death?" Melody spoke up with a giggle.

"Well, yeah, but you can never tell with how villains can be," Alexandra said. "I'm pretty excited though for my first Christmas with Henry. I just hope that the other Chan siblings will be alright without Henry. Scooter and Mimi were pretty sad when he said he'd spend the holidays with us in PBS Town."

"Oh, I'm sure they'll be fine," James smiled as he came by with a cup of punch. "It might even be better than last Christmas when Mother, Father, Jenny, and I went to Moscow."

"You guys always travel to the coolest places." Josie replied.

"Don't I know it?" James beamed. "It'll be great to get to know you guys too since we hung out for Jenny's birthday before... Uh... Well... You know with Bill Sykes."

"Ugh, tell me about it," Valerie rolled her eyes. "I'm glad that guy is gone."

"For sure!" Melody added.

"I just hope you don't mind a late travel," James said. "Father says the best way to get to PBS Town is by limo."

"I'm fine either way," Josie smiled. "After all, we travel all the time with our band."

James chuckled a bit as he smiled warmly as he saw his little sister hanging out with the other little kids as she showed Oliver to them. Oliver smiled as he looked happy to see other kids, though he missed Dodger and the Company, but it was only temporary.

Eventually, the Christmas party ended and everybody went home.

"All right, guys, let's get ready to go," Henry said to the others. "It'll snow pretty soon, so we should leave before we get caught in the snow."

"Right." The others agreed to that.

"Melody, you look extra chipper right now." Henry said.

"I caught Stanley under the mistletoe," Melody giggled. "He was pretty surprised."

"I'm sure," Henry chuckled from that. "All right, let's meet up in about half an hour. That should be plenty of time to get ready. Hope you guys are ready for a Christmas in PBS Town."

Everybody smiled all around as they split up to go get their stuff ready for the upcoming holidays. Josie, Melody, and Valerie came to the hotel with the Foxworth siblings while Henry brought Alexandra and Kasey home to get their stuff and say goodbye to the family.